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One of our specialties here at Etiquette Systems is freezer sheet labels, which are specialized freezer grade adhesive labels used primarily for frozen foods, though they also work fine as refrigerator labels. Not only do we make labels for freezer containers, we'll happily tell you how to label frozen food if you don't know already.

To make our famous freezer adhesive labels, we use top-quality materials like the best papers (coated and uncoated) and vinyl for the facestock, as well as adhesives with a high degree of stickiness that won't deaden and fall off in cold—even in temperatures down to -60° F. Our freezer sheet labels (indeed, all our sheet labels) set the standard for the industry and are easily printed on with laser or inkjet printers. If you'd prefer us to print personalized frozen stickers, we'll make sure the inks are rated to handle the cold, too. At extreme cold temperatures, many materials like inks simply act differently than in normal temperatures.

Another positive for our labels for frozen products is that they can also handle the moisture expected in a cold setting where the container door is opened and closed often, whether that moisture takes the form of condensation (sweating) or frost. As long as the package is clean and dry when the freezer label is applied, you can expect our freezer grade adhesive labels to keep sticking no matter how wet they get. And they won't get mushy either, especially the coated freezer paper labels and plastic labels. On top of that, all our formats fit easily into one of the many standard frozen label templates created for laser and inkjet printing.

Sausage labels, seafood labels, pizza labels, ice cream labels, meat labels—if you need to buy freezer labels, check with us first. At Etiquette Systems, we have the freezer sheet label experience that so many of our competitors lack. Once we know your needs, we can easily match them to our stock. If you want customized freezer labels, we'll print them in our facility on our own equipment. None of this third-party printing that adds days or weeks to your order time. Once we've agreed on an order and have your money, you'll have it in your hands as soon as we can print your freezer sheet labels and overnight them to you.

As recently as a century ago, if you wanted to eat fresh vegetables, you were out of luck if they were out of season. Before the global village and high-speed transportation, you had to eat as much of your favorite veggies in the spring and summer as you could, hoping that would hold you over until the next year. Otherwise, the best you could do was preserve your veggies in canning jars, by drying, packing them in salt, or by pickling. Sadly, very few people were buying freezer food labels at that point, since no one had freezers. While people needed the occasional food label, frozen varieties were right out.

Then, in 1913 or thereabouts, an ice fisherman made a momentous discovery. He probably wasn't the first to do so, but he was the first to realize he had a gold mine on his hands, and that he could create an entire industry if he just could find a mechanical way to mimic what nature already did. You see, when he was sitting out on a frozen lake in -40 °F weather, the fish he pulled out of the water and threw out onto the ice froze instantly. You can see the need for freezer meal labels coming, can't you? Later, when he thawed and cooked those flash-frozen fish, he realized they tasted as fresh as if he'd taken them straight to his kitchen. Cue music for how to label frozen food.

But as in all sagas, where they deliberately delay the solution to heighten the tension, he wasn't quite there yet. The door leading to labels for freezer containers was ajar, but technology hadn't caught up to the need for freezer adhesive labels yet.

Thank goodness for us, in the early 1920s that fisherman, one Clarence Birdseye, invented not just the frozen foods industry, but also the frozen food labels industry. The way had been cleared for other unsung heroes to figure out the details of self-adhesive freezer labels. So oddly enough, we owe our livelihoods here at Etiquette Systems to a member of that special breed of madmen who liked to keep warm by chopping holes through ice three feet thick, on days when even snowmen were smart enough to stay indoors, just so they could jiggle funny-looking little lures in freezing water using fishing poles made for midgets, and then haul very hungry fish out into air so cold they froze solid in mid-flop.

You just never know where genius will come from. It's a good thing Clarence didn't work in Hawaii and take up beachcombing as a hobby, or maybe no one would ever have a need to buy freezer labels. At least until the next ice fisherman noticed how good his flash-frozen fish tasted.

Today, you can buy your printable freezer meal labels from many sources, but be careful whose you choose. Do you really want some cheap fly-by-night freezer food labels made by some third party that fall off in the freezer, leaving your favorite frozen vegetables unlabeled? Do you really want to play freezer roulette? Of course not. You want your sticker freezer labels and refrigerator labels to come from a company that knows how to label frozen food and can provide you with write on freezer labels you can count on for years.

You can buy freezer food labels from someone else, or you can buy them from Etiquette Systems. We think the choice is obvious, so hit us up for a quote.

If you're not stocking up on inexpensive labels for freezer containers and then freezing fruit, you're wasting a wonderful opportunity to enjoy sunshine in physical form well into the off season. Nothing beats the tangy sweetness of a clementine or orange slice in December, perfectly preserved at its peak of freshness, or a crisp apple in a savory apple pie on a cold day. And let's not even get into enjoying the custardy goodness of a cherimoya, easily the tastiest and most addictive of fruits, at any time of the year.

All it takes is the fruit, some freezer-safe containers, bags, or wrap, and some good write on freezer labels to mark what you've frozen and when.

One good thing about living in the modern age is that we can usually find fruit and vegetables in our grocery stores whatever the time of year. Hothouse operations and importation from foreign countries makes it easy to find peaches in January and cherimoyas in the spring. But let's face it: the prices are outrageous, the carbon footprint to get them to you is large, and who knows if the quality and growing standards in South America are up to par with our country's? So even if you don't grow your own fruits, you can stock up, buying some freezer food labels for identification purposes, then freezing your fruit when it's at its freshest and least expensive. Sure, you can always make jams or jellies, but processing them for freezing is a lot quicker and easier, and freezer labels are cheaper than jars and lids!

We recommend chopping, dicing, or slicing larger fruits, while leaving smaller ones, like grapes or berries, intact. Clean them thoroughly and pat dry. Place the individual pieces or small fruits on cookie sheets and freeze them that way. Later, you can put them in plastic bags or containers while they're still frozen solid. This keeps the pieces from freezing together and helps them retain their freshness longer.

As long as you freeze them quickly, frozen fruits are as nutrient-rich as any you've kept in a fruit bowl or left in the refrigerator. Most fruits, including stone fruits, apples, pears, and the like, can be safely frozen for 12 months, which is easy enough to note on your freezer bag stickers. Citrus fruit—oranges, blood oranges, kumquats, tangerines, grapefruit, and their relatives—last for three months frozen. So be sure you buy freezer labels from us to label your packages, and always date them; otherwise, your frozen fruits may languish longer than they should and may not be as yummy as they might have been when you finally pull them out to eat.

We're proud of our freezer labels, but we can't make you what you need, and you can't use them properly, without some basic information beforehand. First of all, we need to know how you're going to use them. What types of containers will you be labeling: cardboard, plain paper, waxed paper, vacuum bags, blast-freezing packs, glass or plastic deli containers? And how cold will it be when you're applying the labels—not when you cool the contents, but when you actually attach the labels?

Next, there's the matter of product exposure, especially to moisture and frost. For example, a deli container full of a nice, zesty salsa stored directly on ice is going to get a lot wetter than items in a deep-freezer or open cooler. In the case of the salsa, everything about the label—adhesive, face-stock, and ink—must be moisture-resistant. This is always important, but is less so when the food is hard-frozen all or most of the time.

Once we know how you're going to be using the labels, we can narrow things down to the right materials necessary. Then we'll shoot you a quote, send samples and proofs if you need them, and, once you give us the OK, have your finalized labels in your hot little hands in record time.

Applying your labels takes special care. If the product packages happen to be frosty or wet, you'll need to dry them before applying the labels. We recommend using terry cloth. When the packages are dry, remember your labels are pressure-sensitive: they can't just be dropped or slapped onto the packages, or they won't stick right. Most applicators apply sufficient pressure, but to really stick forever, your labels need 12-24 hours of "dwell time" for the adhesive to cure.